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MobiPedia – Wikipedia “To Go” (For Mobile Use)

November 17th, 2008 | View Comments

Today, I have purchased a 2 GB SD-Card so that I could install a mobile version of the Wikipedia encyclopedia on my PDA (Medion MD 41600). A friend has told me about this possibility (special thanks to Huy-Linh Bui) – it worked, and it is very simple!

The so-called “WPMP Project” aims at providing automatically generated snapshots of the Wikipedia for mobile use, e.g. on your PDA. Basically, you just have to follow these steps:

  1. Be sure your SD-Card has enough free space – you need e.g. about 1.4 GB for the full German version!
  2. Download the Mobipocket eBook Reader and install it on your mobile device.
  3. Download the compressed file in the desired language from ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/wikipedia/mobile (FTP | HTTP).
  4. Decompress the .tgz-file.
  5. Put the decompressed eBook-files (Mobipocket format) onto your SD-Card in a folder named “/ebooks”. Done!

All the instructions can also be found on the WPMP website.

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  • I just won two of them, and don't have much to use them with.
    My camera died.
  • Ron
    So it's like having a free encyclopedia on your phone. I didn't know you could do that, but it is a very good idea.
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